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A State Dinner honoring a visiting head of government or reigning monarch is one of the grandest and most glamorous...
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President Nixon ensured no harm was done to the swimming pool (seen here during the Kennedy administration) when it was decked over to provide greatly expanded space in the West Colonnade for the White House press corps in 1970. Work was interrupted in late 1969 by the discovery of the underground rooms from Thomas Jefferson’s time and their subsequent excavation.
This photograph depicts the White House indoor swimming pool as it appeared during the administration of President John F. Kennedy. The mural illustrating the U.S. Virgin Islands was painted by Bernard Lamotte and installed in the White House in 1962.
A State Dinner honoring a visiting head of government or reigning monarch is one of the grandest and most glamorous...
In 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn in for the first of his four terms as president of the United States....
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
Presidents have found different ways to escape the pressures and politics of the position. For early leaders, it was a...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to office at the height of the Great Depression. He ushered in an environment...
“Backstage at a White House Wedding: Behind the Main Event.” Life Magazine, June 18, 1971: 40-49. Google Books. “Beene Speaks Out on that W...
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The White House Collection and the Atlantic World Jennifer L. Anderson, Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America (Cambridge,...
Kate Clarke Lemay is a historian at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. She is a Fulbright Scholar;...
Matthew R. Costello is chief education officer for the White House Historical Association where he oversees education programs, historical research,...
The year 2020 has embodied a timeline of uncertainty and tension across not only the United States, but the world as...
The White House Historical Association has established an endowed position, the Marlyne Sexton Chair in White House History, in honor...